24 Amendments of Esther DE LANGE related to 2011/0281(COD)
Amendment 452 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) This Regulation should provide for the possibility of disposal of products bought in public intervention. Such measures should be taken in a way that avoids market disturbances and that ensures equal access to goods and equal treatment of purchasers. The disposal of products could where possible be used to achieve the goals of the EU 2020 strategy, while at the same time avoiding disturbances on the food market.
Amendment 469 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) Support for setting up producer groups should be provided for all sectors in all Member States under rural development policy so the specific support in the fruit and vegetables sector should be discontinued. This support should not distort the level playing field for farmers and their producer organisations on the internal market.
Amendment 497 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 84 a (new)
Recital 84 a (new)
(84 a) In view of the final and definitive abolition of the quota system as of 2020, before 1 July 2018 the Commission should submit a report to Parliament and the Council on the appropriate measures for abolishing the quota system and measures needed to ensure a soft landing in the sector.
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 87
Recital 87
(87) As regards live plants, beef and veal, pigmeat, sheepmeat and goatmeat, eggs and poultrymeat provision should be made for the possibility of adopting certain measures to facilitate the adjustment of supply to market requirements which may contribute to stabilising the markets and to ensuringall farmers who produce one or more of the products listed in annex I, provision should be made for the possibility of adopting certain measures to ensure a fair standard of living. This means for example that active farmers should get a fair standard of living for the agricultural community concerned reasonable price for their products, which includes compensation for sustainability investments.
Amendment 520 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 91
Recital 91
(91) In order to ensure the rational and sustainable development of production and thus a fair standard of living for dairyactive farmers, their bargaining power vis-à-vis processors should be strengthened which should result in a fairer distribution of value-added along the supply chain. Therefore, in order to attain these CAP objectives, a provision should be adopted pursuant to Articles 42 and 43(2) of the Treaty to allow producer organisations constituted by dairyactive farmers or their associations to negotiate contract terms, including price, for some or all of its members‘ production with a dairy. In order to maintain effective competition on the dairy market, this possibility should be subject to appropriate quantitative limits.
Amendment 522 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 91 a (new)
Recital 91 a (new)
(91 a) Measures should be proposed by the Commission to ensure a soft landing in the milk and milk products sector before the abolition of quotas in 2015, in line with commitments made in 2008. Several options should be considered to allow for a more flexible approach for Member States experiencing difficulties, including a butterfat adjustment, or a linear reduction in super levy before 2015.
Amendment 524 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 93
Recital 93
(93) In order to ensure that the objectives and responsibilities of producer organisations (including farmers co- operatives), associations of producer organisations, interbranch organisations and operator organisations are clearly defined so as to contribute to the effectiveness of their actions, to take into account the specificities of each sector, and to ensure the respect of competition and the good functioning of the common market organisation and to protect certain public goods such as environment, public health, social standards, climate, animal health and welfare and the landscape, the power to adopt certain acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty should be delegated to the Commission in respect of rules on: the specific aims which may, shall or shall not be pursued by such organisations and associations, including derogations from those listed in this Regulation; the rules of association, the recognition, structure, legal personality, membership, size, accountability and activities of such organisations and associations, the effects deriving from recognition, the withdrawal of recognition, and mergers; transnational organisations and associations; outsourcing of activities and the provision of technical means by organisations or associations; the minimum volume or value of marketable production of organisations and associations; the extension of certain rules of the organisations to non-members and the compulsory payment of subscriptions by non-members, including a list of stricter production rules which may be extended, further requirements as regards representativeness, the economic areas concerned, including Commission scrutiny of their definition, minimum periods during which the rules should be in force before their extension, the persons or organisations to whom the rules or contributions may be applied, and the circumstances in which the Commission may require that the extension of rules or compulsory contributions be refused or withdrawn.
Amendment 650 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) variable blending requirements for biofuel, where Member States can increase the blending requirements for biofuel in case of price distortions due to surpluses of grain on the market;
Amendment 1583 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 104 – paragraph 2 – point c – point i – indent 2 a (new)
Article 104 – paragraph 2 – point c – point i – indent 2 a (new)
- take into account costs related to sustainability investments of the farmer;
Amendment 1588 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 105 – paragraph 1
Article 105 – paragraph 1
1. Contracts for the delivery of raw cow milk by a farmer to a processor of raw cow milk, or to a collector within the meaning of the second subparagraph of Article 104(1), may be negotiated by a producer organisation in the milk and milk products sector which is recognised under Article 106, on behalf of its farmer members for part or all of their joint production.
Amendment 1589 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 105 a (new)
Article 105 a (new)
Article 105a Transitional measures for the ending of the milk quota regime 1. The national quotas set out in of Annex VIII shall be increased by 5% in 2014/15 in the light of the final year of the milk quota regime and particular conditions existing in certain Member States. 2. A surplus levy shall be payable on milk and other milk products marketed in excess of the national quota as established in accordance with Subsection II. The levy shall be set, per 100 kilograms of milk, at EUR 27,83. However, for the year 2014/15, the levy shall be set, per 100 kilograms of milk, at EUR 10,00.
Amendment 1598 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shallmay recognise, on request, producer organisations, which:
Amendment 1607 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) are formed on the initiative of the producers and are owned and controlled by producers;
Amendment 1614 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
(ii) concentration of supply and the placing on the market of the products produced by its members including price negotiation on behalf of its members, in respect of part or all of their joint production;
Amendment 1627 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point c – point v
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point c – point v
(v) promoting and providing technical assistance for the use of environmentally sound cultivation practices and production, production techniques and sound animal welfare practices and techniques;
Amendment 1643 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point c – point vii a (new)
Article 106 – paragraph 1 – point c – point vii a (new)
(viia) ensuring that producers of a recognised producer organisation receive a reasonable compensation for costs of investments for issues such as environment and animal welfare.
Amendment 1857 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 114 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 114 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) horizontal recommendations for interprofessional agreements concluded by the organizations pursuant to article 108 of the guidelines for interprofessional agreements;
Amendment 1864 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 114 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Article 114 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(f a) achieving sustainable management of natural resources by allowing recognised producer organisations including co-operatives to achieve collective horizontal and vertical agreement with competitors and food chain partners on including in prices the costs of investments in sustainable production;
Amendment 1904 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 123 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 123 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 160 to ensure that imported products meet the minimum quality and environmental standards of the Union;
Amendment 1977 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 137 – paragraph 2
Article 137 – paragraph 2
2. Taking into account the need to encourage exporters to respect animal welfare conditions and to enable the competent authorities to verify correct expenditure of export refunds where that is conditional on respect for animal welfare requirements, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 160 on the respect of animal welfare requirements outside the customs territory of the Union, including the use of independent third parties and to ensure that animal products produced in third countries meet the animal welfare requirements in the Union.
Amendment 2008 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 144 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 144 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
In particular, Article 101(1) of the Treaty shall not apply to agreements, decisions and practices of farmers, farmers‘ associations, or associations of such associations, or producer organisations recognised under Article 106 of this Regulation, or associations of producer organisations recognised under Article 107 of this Regulation, which concern the production or sale of agricultural products or the use of joint facilities for the storage, treatment or processing of agricultural products, and under which there is no obligation to charge identical prices, unless competition is thereby excluded or the objectives of Article 39 of the Treaty are jeopardised.
Amendment 2009 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 144 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 144 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 101(1) of the Treaty shall not apply to the agreements, decisions and practices referred to in Article 143 of this Regulation necessary for the attainment ofachieving the objectives set out in this Regulation relating to environment, climate, animal health and welfare, food safety, sustainability and the objectives set out in Article 39 of the Treaty.
Amendment 2015 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 144 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 144 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. In particular, Article 101(1) of the Treaty shall not apply to agreements throughout the food-supply chain ensuring fair and reasonable prices for producers, which take into account costs made by producers in relation to sustainability and animal welfare.
Amendment 2107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 156 a (new)
Article 156 a (new)